Figure 636

Maintenance of chloride-resistant metabolic alkalosis. Increased renal bicarbonate reabsorption is the sole basic mechanism that maintains chloride-resistant metabolic alkalosis. As its name implies, factors independent of chloride intake mediate the height ened bicarbonate reabsorption and include mineralocorticoid excess and potassium depletion. The participation of these factors in the nephronal processes that maintain chloride-resistant metabolic alkalosis is depicted [22-24, 26].